Local Transport Act 2008

[F1102BPowers of Integrated Transport AuthoritiesE+W

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(1)An ITA may do—

(a)anything the ITA considers appropriate for the purposes of the carrying-out of any of the ITA's functions (the ITA's “functional purposes”),

(b)anything the ITA considers appropriate for purposes incidental to the ITA's functional purposes,

(c)anything the ITA considers appropriate for purposes indirectly incidental to the ITA's functional purposes through any number of removes,

(d)anything the ITA considers to be connected with—

(i)any of the ITA's functions, or

(ii)anything the ITA may do under paragraph (a), (b) or (c), and

(e)for a commercial purpose anything which the ITA may do under any of paragraphs (a) to (d) otherwise than for a commercial purpose.

(2)Where subsection (1) confers power on an ITA to do something, it confers power (subject to section 102C) to do it anywhere in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

(3)An ITA's power under subsection (1) is in addition to, and is not limited by, the other powers of the ITA.

(4)Subsection (5) applies if there is, in relation to an ITA—

(a) a Passenger Transport Executive established under section 9 of the TA 1968 for the integrated transport area of the ITA, or

(b)an executive body established by virtue of section 79(1)(a) or 84(2)(d).

(5)The ITA may delegate to the Executive or body the ITA's function of taking action under subsection (1) (but not the function of determining what action to take).]

Textual Amendments

F1Pt. 5 Ch. 4 inserted (18.2.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), ss. 11, 240(2); S.I. 2012/411, art. 2(e)